<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Doug Kling" <<a href="mailto:douglas@htrjobs.com">douglas@htrjobs.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 2, 2011 3:35 PM<br>Subject: Happy New Year + IT hiring needs for 2011<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br><br type="attribution"><div style="font-family:Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">James</div>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Happy New Year! I hope 2010 was a good one for you. At Hunter Technical Resources, we were fortunate enough to see a major rebound in hiring in the IT hiring marketplace. This rebound manifested itself in a 53% increase in the number of placements made in 2010 over 2009. What was especially encouraging was that the 2<sup>nd</sup> half of 2010 was 25% strong than the first half. This is a trend that we expect will continue in 2011. It should be a good year indeed.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">This should be buoyed by data from a recent article on CNN.com which stated that 84% of current employees are planning on looking for a job change in 2011. This is up from 60% in 2010. That article can be read here: <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/23/pf/workers_want_new_jobs/index.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/23/pf/workers_want_new_jobs/index.htm</font></a> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">This means that there will be a substantial number of passive job seekers in the market for the growing number of open positions. Going into 2011, we have roughly 150 open positions at our clients. We anticipate this number to grow by the beginning of February.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Our current openings come in 9 distinct areas:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>1)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Open Source and Java Development. We currently have 35+ open positions for Senior/Mid-level Software Engineers that are working with Java, Spring, Ruby. Python, Flash/Flex and various other related technologies.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>2)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">.NET Development: We currently have 30+ openings for .NET developers at multiple clients. Many of these roles are exclusive positions at long-standing clients.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>3)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Mobile Development Projects: iOS and Android development are becoming a bigger piece of the puzzle every month. Additionally, we are in the final stages of putting together a training program for a major client of ours in the iPad arena. Expect more news about this by mid-January.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>4)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Project Management / Product Management / Business Analysis: This has been a major area of growth in that clients are green-lighting new projects and looking to add key talent to take the reins for these projects. Many of these projects are using the Agile development process, which we are seeing more and more of.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>5)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Database Engineering / Business Intelligence: At the executive levels, organizations are increasing spend on BI and Data-Intensive engineering roles. This is something we expect will continue to increase.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>6)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Quality Assurance / Configuration Management: As development teams grow, QA teams are growing along with them. Mercury, Selenium and various other tools are skill sets that are in need. Select teams are adding high-end Configuration Management engineers as well.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>7)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Infrastructure: Virtualization, and extensive experience with high-end Linux & Microsoft systems engineering are skills that are being hired for by almost all of our clients.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>8)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">ERP: Local and traveling PeopleSoft, Oracle and SAP roles are being filled as these initiatives are being focused heavily on by larger clients and consulting firms.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><span>9)<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Senior Technical / Executive Management: Many organizations cut layers of management throughout 2008 and 2009. New positions have been slower to come back, but we have been seeing a progression here. We expect that to growth to speed up in the coming months.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">If you are one of the 84% of people that is willing to consider a job change in 2011, I look forward to connecting (or re-connecting) you with one of our Senior Recruiters at Hunter to talk about the roles that we are currently working on. There will still be heavy competition for many of these roles, but our expert recruiters can help you position your background so that you have the best possible change of landing in one of the roles that you are interested in.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">If you are not interested in pursuing another position at this point in time, HTR has a special referral bonus policy for new hires made in Q1 of 2011: For any referral made by you that is hired by a client of ours in Q1 2011, HTR will send you a brand new Apple iPad. I’ve been an iPad owner since day 1, and if you don’t have one yet, you are missing our on a real game-changer device. And if you do have one, the time for sharing it with family members stops here!</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Regardless of whether you are looking for a new role, have friends that are, or neither, HTR looks forward to hearing from you in 2011. We anticipate big things in the coming months and we look forward to continuing our business relationship with you.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">All the best,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">-Douglas Kling</span></p>
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